Humans are inherently pattern-seeking creatures. Our ancestors depended upon recognizing recurring patterns in nature to survive and thrive, such as the changing of seasons, the migration of animals and the cycles of plant...more
8/1/2025
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Introduction: The Urgency and Promise of Generative AI in Law - The unprecedented rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide presents the legal profession with a pivotal opportunity for...more
6/27/2025
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Henry A. Kissinger co-wrote his last book at the age of 100 with tech giants Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie. Genesis shows that what we do next with AI could be our greatest triumph or our gravest mistake. Here I review the...more
6/18/2025
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The year 2025 has brought us closer than ever to the dawn of artificial general intelligence, with AI systems now capable of reasoning on par with humans—or even surpassing them in specific domains. In this article, I examine...more
2/21/2025
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DeepSeek, a startup AI company owned by a Chinese hedge fund, which is in turn owned by a young AI whiz-kid, Liang Wenfeng, claims that its newly released V-3 software-R1 was trained inexpensively and without using NVIDIA’s...more
1/31/2025
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In the history of technological revolutions, there are moments that challenge not only our understanding of what is possible but the very nature of reality itself. Google’s latest refinement to its quantum computer, Willow,...more
1/8/2025
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Generative AI is transforming the landscape of legal technology, offering unprecedented opportunities to automate tasks and streamline complex workflows. Yet, designing AI tools that truly meet the needs of legal...more
11/12/2024
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The future of Artificial Intelligence isn’t just on the horizon—it’s already transforming industries and reshaping how businesses operate. But with this rapid evolution comes new challenges. Ethical concerns, privacy risks,...more
10/22/2024
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A computer capable of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if ever created, will be the greatest invention in history. It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel. Unlike narrow AI, which excels...more
8/9/2024
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Bill Gates has insider knowledge on the future of generative AI. He predicts there will be ‘two more turns of the crank’ on scaling, with the next ‘big frontier‘ being ‘metacognition.’ Gates describes ChatGPT’s metacognitive...more
7/25/2024
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One of the most important emergent intelligence abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT is its bizarre ability to split into different sub-personalities, like different minds, and then speak with each other. They can even be made to...more
6/28/2024
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The Eleventh Circuit published a ground breaking Concurring Opinion on May 28, 2024 by Judge Kevin C. Newsom on the use of generative AI to help decide contract interpretation issues. Snell v. United Specialty Ins. Co., 2024...more
This blog considers some of the ethical issues of competence that arise when a lawyer or law firm uses generative AI to assist in rendering services. Prior to the advent of artificial intelligence, the legal profession...more
5/6/2024
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A first of its kind experiment testing use of AI found a 40% increase in quality and 12% increase in productivity. The tests involved 18 different realistic tasks assigned to 244 different consultants in the Boston Consulting...more
4/29/2024
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Most everyone in the AI and legal worlds by now knows about the New York Times (“NYT”) suit against Microsoft and various Open AI entities (“OAI”). The NYT alleges copyright infringement by the practice of OAI, and most all...more
3/12/2024
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Conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus Series: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Slow Down Development of AI. This is the conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those...more
This article describes an experiment using OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to do appellate work, usually considered the most intellectually challenging area of the law. My hypothesis was that AI was already capable of acting as an...more
DefCon’s AI Village - Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I...more
9/12/2023
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Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack, but there were many other...more
9/1/2023
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The report by well-known consulting firm McKinsey, The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier (June 2023), provides reliable information and analysis on the jobs potential of ChatGPT and other...more
On May 12, 2023, Chat GPT-4 began its release to the public of two new features in GPT-4, Web Browsing and Plugins. Just a few days later, a red-team instructor, Johann Rehberger, claimed to have made a successful indirect...more
1. SUMMARY OF INSIGHTS SO FAR. A scientist and tech lawyer impressions of ChatGPT, with emphasis on how it may impact the law going forward.
a. RL - "These are ALMOST the Droids we’ve been looking for!"
(i) Impressed by...more
5/22/2023
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Prompt Engineered, Edited and Quality Controlled by Ralph Losey. This essay was co-written by a human and machine with over 80% of the text “generated” by ChatGPT. Active machine learning is a type of Artificial Intelligence...more
PREFACE - I know that 2022 is ending, not 2021, but I am still in “author catch up mode,” as I did not do a “TOP FIVE” type article at the end of 2021. In fact, seems like all of Covid 2021 is a bit of a blur. Stay tuned, we,...more
Inadvertently Disclosed Warrant Application Against Apple in a Criminal Investigation Against Retired Marine General Reveals Latest DOJ Search Procedures, the Dangers of Pacer and Too Much Court Record Transparency, and Much...more